Twelve-year-old Katy Carr was always dreaming of the time when something would happen to make her famous. But when it does happen, it’s not at all what she wants.
This is the moving story of how Katy Carr overcomes her tragic accident and learns to be as loving and as patient as the beautiful invalid, Helen.
Susan Coolidge’s famous story, set in the small nineteenth-century American town of Burnet, has charmed generations of children all around the world.

“Susan Coolidge has always possessed the affection of her young readers, for it seems as if she had the happy instinct of planning stories that each girl would like to act out in reality.” — The Critic, 1899

“This is the moral side of the story; but its great charm to the little people will lie in the graphic picture of the life of Katy and her five brothers and sisters, before Katy’s accident took place. Not even Miss Alcott herself could have given more vivid pictures of children’s good times and sad scrapes than are in the first half of this story.” —Century Magazine, 1873

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Author Bio: Susan Coolidge

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncy Woolsey (1835–1905). Born in Ohio, she served as a nurse during the Civil War and after that turned to writing. When her first
book, A New Year’s Bargain, was published in 1871, her editor, who was also the editor for Louisa May Alcott, suggested that Susan Coolidge try her hand at the same kind of story as
Alcott’s. What followed were five books about the irrepressible Katy Carr and the fortunes and misfortunes of the Carr family, characters based on members of Coolidge’s own family.

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Format:

CD

Format:

MP3 CD

Available Formats :

CD, MP3 CD

Category:

Fiction

Publisher:

Blackstone Publishing

Publisher:

Blackstone Publishing

CDs:

5

CDs:

1

Runtime:

5.32

ISBN:

9781441760319

ISBN:

9780786182695

Purchased:

0 copies

Purchased:

0 copies

Audience:

Children (4–7)

Language:

English

AE Catalog ID:

H5B031

AE Catalog ID:

H1B269

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